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FICTION

1. Private: #1 Suspect:By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) When a former lover's dead body is found in his bed, Jack Morgan, a former Marine and the head of an investigative firm, is accused of murder.

2. Death of Kings: By Bernard Cornwell. (Harper/HarperCollins, $27.99.) As King Alfred lies near death, the Saxon warrior Uhtred must decide whether to support a united England or reclaim his ancestral lands in the north.

3. Believing the Lie: By Elizabeth George. (Dutton, $28.95.) Inspector Thomas Lynley's investigation of a murder unearths the secrets of a wealthy clan.

4. Death Comes to Pemberley: By P.D. James. (Knopf, $25.95.) Six years after Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy marry, their comfortable life is shaken by a murder, as James re-creates the world of Pride and Prejudice with a mysterious twist.

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5. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest: By Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $27.95.) In the third volume of the Millennium trilogy, Swedish hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist confront a governmental adversary.

6. 11/22/63: By Stephen King. (Scribner, $35.) An English teacher travels back to 1958 by way of a time portal in a Maine diner. His assignment is to stop Lee Harvey Oswald, but first he must determine if Oswald is guilty.

8. Shadows in Flight: By Orson Scott Card. (Tor/Tom Doherty, $21.99.) The latest entry in the Ender science fiction series; a sequel to Shadow of the Giant

9. The Rope: By Nevada Barr. (Minotaur, $25.99.) In the 17th Anna Pigeon mystery, Barr returns to 1995 to explore the dramatic circumstances that explain why this National Park Service ranger decided to go into law enforcement.

10. The Litigators: By John Grisham. (Doubleday, $28.95.) Partners in a small law firm take on a big case after a fast-track burnout joins them.

NONFICTION

1. Ameritopia: By Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Editions, $26.99.) A talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation surveys the utopian movement and warns that Americans must choose between utopianism and liberty.

2. American Sniper: By Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. (Morrow/HarperCollins, $26.99.) A Navy SEAL who has the most career sniper kills in U.S. military history discusses his childhood, his marriage and his battlefield experiences during the Iraq war.

4. Killing Lincoln: By Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. (Holt, $28.) The commentator looks at the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

5. Through My Eyes: By Tim Tebow with Nathan Whitaker. (HarperCollins, $26.99.) The Broncos quarterback chronicles his personal and professional course.

6. Unbroken: By Laura Hillenbrand. (Random House, $27.) An Olympic runner's story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II after his bomber went down over the Pacific.

7. Thinking, Fast and Slow: By Daniel Kahneman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.) The winner of the Nobel in economic science discusses how we make choices in business and personal life and when we can and cannot trust our intuitions.

8. The Obamas: By Jodi Kantor. (Little, Brown, $29.99.) The ups and downs of building a life in the White House

9. Elizabeth the Queen: By Sally Bedell Smith. (Random House, $30.) The public and private lives of Queen Elizabeth II as she approaches her Diamond Jubilee.

10. Catherine the Great: By Robert K. Massie. (Random House, $35.) The life of the minor 18th-century German princess who became empress of all the Russias.